2 Samuel 23 - Introduction
_THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID. THE NAMES AND DEEDS OF HIS MIGHTY MEN._ _Before Christ 1018._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID. THE NAMES AND DEEDS OF HIS MIGHTY MEN._ _Before Christ 1018._... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THESE BE THE LAST WORDS, &C.— It is supposed that these are called _the last words of David,_ as being the last which he pronounced by the inspiration of the Spirit of God. Dr. Grey, who has taken great pains to explain this passage of Scripture, observes, that it is a point in which the learned... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT RULETH OVER MEN MUST BE JUST— We prefer Dr. Grey's translation of this verse, which appears most agreeable to the whole tenor of the prophesy. He observes, that this is the first time that we meet with the Messiah, or great expected Deliverer of the Jews, under this title of _the Just One._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHALL BE AS THE LIGHT, &C.— Bishop Sherlock suggested that interpretation of this verse which Dr. Grey has given: according to which, says the Bishop, taking _the sun_ to be an image or character of _the Just One,_ the sense will be, "This sun shall be like the kind gentle light of the mornin... [ Continue Reading ]
ALTHOUGH MY HOUSE BE NOT SO WITH GOD, &C.— This passage is universally allowed to be extremely difficult and obscure. I have not met with any interpretation which appears preferable to that given by Dr. Grey. But to those, says he, who prefer the common way of pointing, (for I make no alteration in... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE— The Chaldee paraphrase gives us the following exposition of the first words of this song: "These are the words of the prophesy of David, which he prophesied concerning the consummation of all things, in the day of consolation which is to come." And it expounds... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE BE THE NAMES OF THE MIGHTY MEN— As there are variations between this list of David's mighty men, and that in 1 Chronicles 11:10 we shall omit our remarks upon those variations till we come to that chapter of the Chronicles; referring our reader in the mean time to the first volume of Kennicott... [ Continue Reading ]